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75 short excerpts of Wiktionnary (A collaborative project to produce a free-content dictionary.)

— English words —

• metro n. (General) A rapid transit rail transport system, or a train in such systems, generally underground and…
• metro n. (Less common) An urban rapid transit rail transport system, normally with lighter track and light trains…
• metro n. A metropolitan area.
• metro adj. Metropolitan.
• métro n. Alternative form of metro.
• metro- pref. Metropolitan: of or relating to the city.
• metro- pref. (Medicine) Relating to the uterus.
• metro- pref. Poetry; meter.
• metro- pref. Relating to measurements.
• Metro. n. (Law) Abbreviation of metropolitan.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Aragonese
  • metro n. Metre.
• Catalan
  • metro n. Metro (train).
• Copala triqui
  • metró n. Metre.
  • metró n. Ruler.
• Crimean tatar
  • metro n. Metro, underground railway.
• Czech
  • metro n. Metro, subway (underground railway).
• Esperanto - Ido
  • metro n. Metre (unit of measurement).
  • metro n. Metrum of poetry.
• Finnish
  • metro n. An underground, a subway, a Tube or a metro.
• Galician
  • -metro suff. -meter.
• Hungarian
  • metró n. Metro (underground railway).
• Polish
  • metro n. Underground, subway, metro (underground railway).
• Romanian
  • metro n. Alternative form of metrou.
• Serbo-croatian - Slovak
  • metro n. Metro.
• Tagalog
  • metro n. (Units of measure) meter.
  • metro n. (Measuring instrument) meter.
  • metro n. (By extension) taximeter.
  • metro n. (By extension) tape measure, measuring tape.
  • Metro n. Metropolis.
• Turkish
  • metro n. Subway.
  • metro n. Meter, metre.
• Veps
  • metro n. Metro (underground railway).
• Votic
  • metrõ n. Meter, metre.

— English words, defined in French —

• metro n. (Chemin de fer) Métropolitain.
• metro n. (En particulier) Celui de Paris.

— English word, defined in Portuguese —

• metro s. Metro (meio de transporte).

— English word, defined in Italian —

• metro s. Metropolitana.

— In Dutch —

• metro n. (Verkeer) ondergronds openbaar vervoer, meestal per trein of tram.

— In French —

• métro n.m. (Vieilli) Mesure en poésie.
• métro n.m. (Chemin de fer) Chemin de fer métropolitain.
• métro n.m. (Par métonymie) Train d’un service de chemin de fer métropolitain.
• métro n.m. (Au singulier) (Par métonymie) Les trains d’un service…
• métro n.m. (Par métonymie) Station ou gare où les trains d’un service…
• métro n.m. (Par métonymie) Ligne d’un service de chemin de fer métropolitain.
• métro n.m. (Par métonymie) Service de transport public qui dessert une ville.
• métro n.m. (Antilles) Métropole, mère-patrie.
• métro n.m. (Antilles) Métropolitain.
• métro n.m. (Afrique) (Désuet) Unité monétaire de France, franc français.
• Métro n. (Antilles) (Nouvelle-Calédonie) Français de métropole qui…
• métro- préf. (Métrologie) Relatif à la mesure (« mètre »), en poésie…
• métro- préf. (Anatomie) Relatif à l’utérus.
• métro- préf. Relatif à une métropole.

— In Spanish —

• metro s. Metrología. Unidad de longitud del Sistema Internacional…
• metro s. Física y Herramientas. Instrumento utilizado para hacer mediciones.
• metro s. Poesía. Medida de un verso, determinada por el número de…
• metro s. Transporte. Ferrocarril eléctrico urbano para el transporte…
• metro s. Transporte. Conjunto de las instalaciones que están asociadas…
• metro s. Empresa u organismo que se encarga de su funcionamiento.
• -metro suf. Grafía alternativa, menos exacta, de -́metro. (←véase).
• -́metro suf. Elemento compositivo que significa "que mide" o "medida".

— In Portuguese —

• metro s. Medida que regula a quantidade de sílabas de cada verso.
• metro s. Sucessão de sílabas pronunciadas com intervalos regulares.
• metro s. Forma rítmica de uma obra poética.
• metro s. Verso.
• metro s. Ritmo.
• metro s. Unidade fundamental das medidas de comprimento do sistema métrico decimal.
• metro s. Abreviatura de metropolitano (caminho de ferro subterrâneo).
• metrô s. O mesmo que metro (redução de metropolitano).

— In Italian —

• metro s. (Geometria) (fisica) unità di misura della lunghezza nel…
• metro s. (Per estensione) (tecnologia) (architettura) lo strumento…
• metro s. (Per estensione) (poesia) (metrica) unità di ritmo di un…
• metro s. (Musica) ricorrenza periodica di accenti in un brano musicale.
• metro s. (Per estensione) (senso figurato) misura, criterio.
• metro s. Metropolitana.
• -metro suff. Seconda parte di parole composte il cui significato è misura.

61 English words from 33 English definitions

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35 English words from 42 foreign definitions

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1 foreign word from 33 English definitions

Metrum

133 foreign words from 42 foreign definitions

Abreviatura accenti Afrique alternativa Anatomie architettura asociadas brano cada Calédonie caminho caminho␣de␣ferro Celui chemin compositivo composte comprimento criterio cui de␣fer de␣ferro della Désuet determinada eléctrico Elemento Elemento␣compositivo Empresa encarga En␣particulier están estensione ferro Ferrocarril figurato fisica Forma français franc␣français funcionamiento Geometria Grafía hacer Herramientas instalaciones Instrumento Internacional intervalos Ligne longitud lunghezza mediciones medida medidas meestal meio meio␣de␣transporte menos mère mère␣patrie mesmo mesure métonymie mètre metrica métrico Metrología Métrologie métropole métropolitain Metropolitana metropolitano mide misura monétaire Musica nel Nouvelle Nouvelle-Calédonie número obra ondergronds openbaar openbaar␣vervoer organismo particulier patrie Per␣estensione periodica poesia poésie poética por pronunciadas quantidade qui redução regulares Relatif ricorrenza rítmica ritmo Seconda senso senso␣figurato significa significato sílabas singulier sistema strumento subterrâneo Sucessão tecnologia transporte transport␣public trein uma une Unidad Unidade unità unità␣di␣misura Unité Unité␣monétaire urbano utérus utilizado véase Verkeer vervoer Vieilli ville

174 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

metron metros métros metrons metrobus metrogon metronym metro␣aide MetroCard metrocyte metrogons metrology metronome metronomy metronyms metronymy metroplex metropole metropoli metrotome metrotomy metro␣aides metrobuses MetroCards metrocytes metrodynia metrogaine metrogenic metrograph Metroliner metromania metrometer metronomes metronomic metronymic metropathy metrophile metrophobe metropoles metropolia metropolis Metropolis metroscope metroscopy metrotomes metrochrome Metrodorian metroethnic metrogaines metrographs +124 words

117 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

Demetros ametropia ametropic emmetrope emmetropy symmetron ametropias asymmetron dimetrodon emmetropes emmetropia emmetropic geometroid parametron symmetrons asymmetrons asymmetrous cimetropium dimetrodons emmetropias emmetropise emmetropize endometroid geometroids isometropia isometropic parametrons pymetrozine trimetrogon antimetropia antimetropic biometrology dysmetropsia emmetropized endometrosis hypermetrope hypermetropy isoametropia isoametropic isometropias pleometrosis pleometrotic sulfametrole symmetrodont trimetrogons anisometropia anisometropic antimetropias dysmetropsias haplometrosis +67 words

3 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

Demetro nonmetro premetro

8 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ETR met Met MET met- met. metr- TRO

5 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ort ORT RTÉ Rte. TEM

4 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

Moret Termo Tomer Tormé

56 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

amoret Dermot emoter emptor Ermont gromet mentor Mentor merlot Merlot meront Merton meteor metron metros métros molter Molter Monter montre mooter morate Moreot Moreta Morets Moretz mother Mother moth-er motser omerta omertà ometer -ometer -ometry pro␣tem pro␣tem. remort remote rem␣out Romelt romset storme Strome Teramo termon Termon termor thermo- Tomers +6 words

28 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

erom mero Mero mero- Meto metr- moer more More Moré -more mort Mort mote Mote mTOR omer Omer Orem Orme Rome rote term tome Tome -tome tore Tore

16 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

hetro metho metho- metoo me-too me␣too metra metre -metre -metry petro Petro petro- retro retro- Tetro

5 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

mero Mero mero- Meto metr-

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